Improve Work-From-Home Security with a File Sharing Server

US Census data had 5.2% of the workforce or 8 million people working from home in 2017. Those numbers have of course skyrocketed in 2020 with more and more employees being asked to work from home.

The new trend makes it increasingly important to keep the work they are doing secure while maintaining high levels of productivity. This is especially important when it comes to secure file sharing - companies don't want sensitive information to become compromised.

VPNs have been the traditional method of providing secure remote access but file access and sharing over a VPN can consume a lot of bandwidth and VPNs tend to be a little difficult to use. For reasons like these, an increasing number of companies are moving to file sharing servers to improve work-from-home security and productivity.

When creating a new user, under Team Folders list, we've added the option to Select All, Deselect and Undo Selection for all team folders.When deleting a guest user, you can now delete the user's permission on existing shares.We've enhanced accessing AD user's home drive when it is imported in Centrestack.We've enhanced the Role tab whenever you want to edit a user and refresh the role assignment.When viewing the tenant admin's Storage Usage Details, the user's quota is displayed correctly.'Allow syncing of empty files' only applies to attached folders.We've enhanced accessing Shared files/folders on the web portal when one user who creates a share is deactivated.Make sure the user cannot launch the windows client when the server agent is installed.We've …

You want to ensure that company confidential data is secure and there is no data leakage. Tenant Managers can activate 'Disable Public Link' which will ensure that users are not allowed to send public links for company's confidential data to external users.

This video shows how you can use this important Group Policy setting to activate this feature.